Fairfield Mirror
| Fairfield University | |
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| Type | weekly college newspaper |
| Format | Berliner |
| Owner(s) | The Fairfield Mirror, Inc. |
| Editor | Jesse Erickson |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Headquarters | Box AA 1073 North Benson Road BCC Room 104 Fairfield, CT 06824 |
| Circulation | 4,700 |
| Website | fairfieldmirror |
The Fairfield Mirror (or The Mirror) is the student newspaper of Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. It is an editorially independent, student-run publication that publishes weekly on Wednesdays during the academic year with additional issues during commencement and orientation. The Mirror staff has won numerous Excellence in Journalism Awards from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists. In 2013, the newspaper won second place in the Apple Awards category of Best Newspaper with an audience of fewer than 5,000 students.
The students of Fairfield University founded and published the first edition of The Mirror in 1977. The newspaper was founded after the merging of two prior publications: one produced under the supervision of the University (The Voice), and one published independently (The Free Press and Review).
The genesis of the change to The Mirror, was Ned Barnett. who as Editor in Chief of The Voice, was one of the driving forces to create an independent newspaper. In addition, the University was seeking to limit its liability from the publication of a student-run media outlet.
The Mirror's first Editor in Chief was Robert M. "Doc" Dougherty, who was responsible for the editorial content, and Frank Godfrey, the Business Manager, who was responsible for the paper's finances and operations as an independent, incorporated entity. The paper was printed by Stratford Printing, and delivered weekly to campus dorms, classroom buildings, and the Campus Center.
The online edition was founded in 2000, and it was the first partner to have a signed contract with the now ubiquitous College Publisher network of online student newspapers.
The Mirror incorporated full-process color in the print edition for the first time in the early 2000s.
Dr. James Simon had been the adviser of The Mirror since 1998, but the role was given to Associate English professor Tommy Xie in Spring of 2011.
In 1984, Editor in Chief Thomas Moore saved the newspaper from a threatened permanent cancellation connected to an April Fool's prank that offended many students on campus.
The item, published in what was at that time the annual lampoon edition called The Morron, made sexual references about a female member of the board of trustees.
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